Changes to Nervous System Patterning in Autism
A good deal of my recent work has been focused on studying deviations to neuronal identity in relation to autism etiology. Though we use the term “neuron” to describe large […]
Tag Archives: FMRP
Rare Truncating Mutations Linked with Autism
You may have noticed that S.O.A.C. has been slow for the last few weeks. Well, I’m pleased to reported that my husband and I have just moved shop to Greenville, […]
Translation Regulation in Autism: A Lesson from Fragile X
A few years ago, researchers reported that the Fragile X Mental Retardation (FMRP) pathway helps to regulate expression or activity of 93 genes linked with idiopathic autism [1, 2]. FMRP, […]
The Prion Hypothesis: How Proteins May Create Heritable Memory
“How a genotype and its environment interact to yield a phenotype poses a vast epistemological gap. Proteins that exhibit conformational diversity and contingent functional multiplicity increase the dimensions of phenotypic […]
The Fragile X Spectrum of Conditions
I’ve talked about Fragile X Syndrome before and its relationship to autism, albeit briefly. What I didn’t touch on, however, is that Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) isn’t the only condition […]
Syndromic Forms of Autism: Part II
This week I’ll continue reviewing more forms of high-association syndromic autism. Some of the conditions I’m writing about today include not only targeted gene mutations, as in the case of […]
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